Email: mbr110@gmail.com

Born: 1939

Education

Balliol College, Oxford 1959-64           

BA Modern History 1962; MA, D Phil (1969) – supervisor Richard Southern

Positions held

• Lecturer/Senior Lecturer, University of Auckland, NZ 1964-71
• Robinson College, Cambridge: Fellow 1978 – 2006, Life Fellow 2006 -.
• Member, Board of Directors, Stephan Kuttner Institute of Medieval Canon Law, Munich, 2000-
• Member, Committee for the British Academy Episcopal acta project, 2001-
• Corresponding Member, Monumenta Germania Historica, Munich 2008-

Books

• The English church under Henry I  (Oxford 1975)
• Councils and Synods of the English Church I (871-1204), with D. Whitelock and C.N.L. Brooke, (Oxford 1981)
• Hugh the Chanter: the history of the church of York 1066-1127, with M. Winterbottom and C.N.L. Brooke, (revised ed. Oxford OMT 1990)
• English episcopal acta, 28. Canterbury 1070-1136, with Joseph Gribbin (British Academy 2004)
• Ed. (with K. Cushing), Readers, texts and compilers in the earlier middle ages. Studies … in honour of Linda Fowler Magerl (2009)

Selected Articles

• 'The canons of the First Lateran Council in English manuscripts', Monumenta Iuris Canonici; Ser. C. Subsidia 7 1985 (Proceedings of the Sixth International Congress of Medieval Canon Law, Berkeley 1981), 13-28
• 'The Collectio Lanfranci and its competitors', Intellectual Life in the Middle Ages; essays presented to Margaret Gibson, ed. L. Smith and B. Ward (Hambledon 1992) pp. 157-174.
• 'Urban II and the collections attributed to Ivo of Chartres', Monumenta Iuris Canonici; Ser. C. Subsidia  1992 (Proceedings of the Eighth International Congress of Medieval Canon Law, pp. 27-46.
• 'Theodore and the Latin canon law', in Archbishop Theodore. Commemorative Studies on his Life and Influence ed. M. Lapidge, Cambridge UP, 1995; pp. 120-40.
• 'Canon Law and litigation in the century before Gratian',  in Medieval Ecclesiastical Studies presented to Dorothy Owen, ed. C. Harper-Bill and M. Franklin, (Woodbridge 1995) pp. 21-40
• 'The sources and influence of Paris, Bibliotheque de l’Arsenal MS 713’ in Monumenta Iuris Canonici; Ser. C. Subsidia, (Proceedings of the Ninth International Congress of Medieval Canon Law), ed. P. Landau and J. Mueller, (Vatican 1997) pp. 149-67.
• ‘Creeping up on the Panormia’ in Grundlagen des Rechts. Festschrift fur Peter Landau zum 65. Geburtstag ed. R.H. Helmholz, etc, (Paderborn 2000), pp. 205-70.
• ‘Editions, texts and readers in some pre-Gratian collections’ in Ritual, Text and Law: Studies in medieval canon law and liturgy presented to Roger E. Reynolds ed. Kathleen G. Cushing and Richard F. Gyug, Ashgate, Aldershot 2004, pp. 205-224.
• ‘Canterbury’s perspective on church reform and Ireland 1070-1115’ in reland and Europe in the twelfth century. Reform and renewal edd. D. Bracken and D. O’Riain-Raedel (2006), 13-35
• ‘Some new letters of Popes Urban II and Paschal II’, Journal of Ecclesiastical History 58 (2007), 75-96.
• ‘Finding the law: the sources of canonical authority before Gratian’ in Law before Gratian: Law in western Europe c. 500-1100, edd. Per Andersen, Mia Münster-Swendsen and Helle Vogt, DJØF 2007, pp. 51-72
• ‘Margin and afterthought: the Clavis in action’ in Readers, texts and compilers (2008).
• ‘Editing the canon-law collections between Burchard and Gratian’in K. Pennington (ed.), Proceedings of the Twelfth International Congress of Medieval Canon Law (Washington 2004) (2009)

Continuing research projects

• Draft editions of the Decretum, Collectio Tripartita and Panormia attributed to Ivo of Chartres at http://project.knowledgeforge.net/ivo/index.html.